Breast cancer is a serious disease that accounts for approximately 40,000 deaths per year in
the United States. Unfortunately, there is no known cause of breast cancer, and therefore the …

The feasibility of computed tomography (CT) with energy-resolved x-ray detection has been
investigated. A breast CT design with multi slit multi slice (MSMS) data acquisition was used …

Although electronic imaging was performed in the early 1950s in nuclear medicine, it was
the introduction of computed tomography in 1972 that caused a revolution in medical …

The purpose of this work was experimental investigation of photon counting spectroscopic
CT (PCS-CT) imaging of anatomical soft tissue with clinically relevant size. The imaging …

During the past eight years since the publication of the third edition—a three-volume set—of
The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, the eld of biomedical engineering has continued to …

Abstract The Noise Power Spectrum (NPS) is a function that yields information about the
spatial frequency composition of noise in images obtained by a system. It is evaluated by …

The purpose of the study is to characterize the imaging performance of the recently built
novel cone beam breast CT (CBBCT) scanner. This CBBCT scanner system has one x-ray …

Breast cancer (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed non‐skin cancer in women. To achieve
early and accurate diagnosis, three‐dimensional (3D) cone‐beam breast computed …

Purpose To investigate the dose saving potential of direct-converting CdTe photon-counting
detector technology for dedicated breast CT. Materials and methods We analyzed the …

In flat-panel detector-based cone beam CT breast imaging (CBCTBI) systems, scattering is
an important factor that degrades image quality. It is not practical to measure the scattering …